Michele Miller

Michele Miller is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at the University of Illinois Springfield. Her work focuses on social-emotional development, temperament, and trauma-informed practices in early education.

Research areas include:

• Social-emotional readiness for preschool
• Temperament and family predictors of developmental outcomes
• Association between early readiness and later academic success
• Individual differences in temperament
• Risk for psychopathology related to temperament
• Development of shyness and anxiety
• Impact of trauma exposure on child development

Recent publications appear in Frontiers in Psychology and the Early Childhood Education Journal, covering topics such as trauma-informed practices, gender differences in childhood temperament, and preschool readiness. Her research highlights intersections between temperament profiles, family environments, and educational outcomes.

She teaches courses spanning psychology fundamentals, research methods, statistics, and developmental psychology topics including child and adolescent development, adult aging, and childhood trauma.